Summary: This role is for an experienced Business Analyst on a 6-month contract outside IR35, based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The position requires a lead-level professional who can shape approaches and manage detailed requirements in a structured, waterfall-style environment. The Business Analyst will collaborate with various teams to define and document requirements while also improving practices within the team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Product Owner, Architecture, Technical Systems Analysts, and development teams.
- Define overall approach and document requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
- Create user stories and define functional and non-functional requirements.
- Support development teams through delivery.
- Help improve Business Analyst practices and ways of working across the team.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience as a lead Business Analyst on complex change.
- Proven ability to define approach and own requirements end to end.
- Hands-on experience producing clear, detailed documentation.
- Strong Jira experience (essential).
- Comfortable working closely with developers and technical stakeholders.
- Experience improving Business Analyst practices or standards.
- Self-starter with a delivery-focused mindset.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Leeds
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Other
Business Analyst - Outside IR35 6 Month Contract Leeds, West Yorkshire (3 days per week on-site)
A contract opportunity has opened for an experienced Business Analyst to join a large organisation at an early stage of a complex piece of change. This is a lead-level, delivery-focused role, suited to a Business Analyst who’s comfortable shaping approach as well as getting hands-on with detailed requirements.
As a Business Analyst, you’ll work closely with a Product Owner, Architecture, Technical Systems Analysts and development teams, helping define the overall approach and documenting requirements throughout the lifecycle. The environment is more structured and leans towards a waterfall style of delivery, with a strong focus on clarity, traceability and quality of documentation.
This Business Analyst role is firmly hands-on. You’ll be creating user stories, defining functional and non-functional requirements, and supporting development teams through delivery. There’s also scope to help improve Business Analyst practices and ways of working across the team.
Business Analyst – Key Skills & Experience:
- Strong experience as a lead Business Analyst on complex change
- Proven ability to define approach and own requirements end to end
- Hands-on experience producing clear, detailed documentation
- Strong Jira experience (essential)
- Comfortable working closely with developers and technical stakeholders
- Experience improving Business Analyst practices or standards
- Self-starter with a delivery-focused mindset
If you’re a Business Analyst who enjoys bringing structure to ambiguity and contributing directly to delivery, apply today. Interviews are taking place this week. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.
